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Description: | A copper alloy medieval key dating to the period c.AD 1100-1300. The key has a loop at one terminal, which expands into the shank, which is octangonal in cross-section. The shank then flattens out to a strip, rectangualar in cross section. This strip then gradually expands, and terminates in two projections to each side, placed at the edges and set at right angles to the strip, thereby forming an 'H' in plan. The key has been bent at 90 degrees halfway along the flat strip, due to post depositional damage.The keys measures 46mm in length, 7mm in width, 1.65mm in thickness and weighs 4.16g.Similar examples can be found on the database: YORYM-C4E6D5 and SUR-91A05C, and similar keys are found in Ottaway and Rogers, 2002, Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Finds from Medieval York, figure 1453.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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